GoldMomma

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[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Trump sent his "ballroom commissioner" to kiss Putin's ass and seemingly try to get some Trump family business done with the Kremlin, but first he had to spend a few minutes groveling and praising Russia and "culture".

What a disgusting fuck.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

mugav on olla täna süsteemi siseringi kriitik - hoiatad katastroofi eest, kiidad siis peaministrit ja jätad seejärel kõik rasked otsused kellegi teise teha

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

BAD SCENARIO:

- Ukraine joins NATO.
- Russia loses the war.
- Growing security threats to Russia.
- Moscow loses influence over post-Soviet states.
- New regional conflicts and a decline in Russian sovereignty.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

🤡At the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia presented its long-term geopolitical scenarios for the future.

GOOD SCENARIO:

- Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, and other Ukrainian cities under Russian control by 2036.
- A fully controlled buffer state on Ukrainian territory - or the annexation of Ukraine.
- The collapse of the European Union.
- Russia becoming a global leader in security and geopolitics by 2050.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@OudekkiLoone So, the people of the Baltic states don't deserve protection at all—they're inferior people, they don't even exist? Like Ukrainians? And what's next? Are we going to adopt personal freedoms from China? The rule of law from Russia? Or the welfare state from the Global South?

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@OudekkiLoone And behind your dream of “a shining city on a hill” stands today the world’s most powerful military arsenal. At the same time, it is a state that has repeatedly violated international law, while not being subject to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@OudekkiLoone You want the milk without buying the cow.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@OudekkiLoone You underestimate also the enduring importance of Western institutions, economic power, and security alliances. A multipolar world is not necessarily more stable, peaceful, or equitable than one in which the West plays a leading role.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@OudekkiLoone Don't the Baltic states have the right to defend themselves? Or should they, as the Bible puts it, simply turn the other cheek when they are attacked? Are they expected to lift their own skirts?

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@OTregub It's the same kind of euphemism as the phrase "We're in favor of peace.". It's about forcing Ukraine to capitulate in order to resume business with Russia without disruption. Peace = no disruption.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Euro-Office launches June 9: Europe’s open-source challenge to Microsoft

On June 9, a coalition of European tech companies will release Euro-Office 1.0 to the public, a browser-based productivity suite built explicitly to break the continent’s dependence on American software platforms.

The project brings together IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian, BTactic, OpenXchange and https://t.co/7HcYA74FGv, a broad front of European firms that have decided collaboration beats competition when the shared enemy is a Washington-state monopoly worth trillions.

Euro-Office consists of four browser-based applications: a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and a PDF editor, each enabling real-time collaborative editing. It supports Microsoft Office formats DOCX, PPTX and XLSX, as well as Open Document Format files.  In other words, you can open your existing files and get to work without a conversion headache.

The software is based on a fork of OnlyOffice’s open-source codebase, enhanced to meet the consortium’s goals of transparency, interoperability and long-term sustainability. That foundation comes with baggage: controversy already surrounds the software, with a licensing dispute over branding removal from the OnlyOffice codebase , though reports indicate the dispute has been resolved in Euro-Office’s favor.

The timing is not accidental. Euro-Office launches as European countries seek alternatives to American technologies amid deteriorating relations with the Trump administration. National and local governments in France, Germany, and Austria have already moved or pledged to move away from Microsoft software, driven by concerns over data privacy and US laws such as the Cloud Act, which compels American companies to hand over data to US law enforcement on request. 

For its first stable release, the development team has focused on improving the software’s underlying architecture, cleaning up source code, translating Russian-language code comments into English to support broader international collaboration, and implementing automated testing systems. 

Whether Euro-Office becomes a genuine challenger or remains a niche tool for the sovereignty-minded will depend on one thing: whether it actually works as well as the product it wants to replace. That answer arrives June 9.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Norway Saved Its Oil Money. Britain Spent It.

Here’s What That Looks Like After 30 Years.

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, and Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg is making a pointed comparison with another major oil producer: the United Kingdom.

Norway’s fund stands at roughly €1.8 trillion. Britain’s equivalent is zero.

A Finance Ministry calculation estimates that a British sovereign wealth fund modelled on Norway’s would today be worth around €600 billion.

The two countries have produced roughly equivalent volumes of oil and gas since 1965. The difference is entirely political.

Norway claimed a large state ownership stake in the oil sector from the start, invested revenues in global equities rather than spending them, and capped annual withdrawals at around three percent of the fund’s total value, preserving its underlying worth across generations.

Britain did none of this. It spent its oil revenues as they arrived, kept taxes lower, and now carries public debt at around 94 percent of GDP, the highest since the early 1960s, with roughly one in twelve pounds of public spending going toward debt servicing alone.

The compounding effect is brutal.

One euro saved in 1996 is worth nine today.

Norway has drawn down roughly €340 billion from the fund through the state budget over thirty years, while growing total assets from an initial deposit of €170 million to €1.8 trillion.

Stoltenberg was direct about what Britain chose and what it cost.

Higher taxes in Norway ran 6 to 8 percentage points above British levels throughout the oil era.

That gap is now sitting in a fund that belongs to future generations.

Source: VG, 30 May 2026.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@viljararakas @erikmoora sama on palgafondile rakendatavate maksumääradega, tehakse küll rahvusvahelisi võrdlusi, kuid jäetakse täpsustamata, kas maks rakendub kogu palgakulule või brutopalgale. Eestis oleks juba aeg rakendada kõiki määrasid palgakulule, ehk muuta kõik maksud töövõtja maksudeks.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@Microinteracti1 Ukraine should submit claims for damages caused by Putin’s war crimes not only against Russia, but also against the United States, on the basis of the Budapest Memorandum.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

suka

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️”In 10 years, the war in Ukraine will end, I hope,” – Angela Merkel.

“And in such a way that Ukraine will be an independent, free, and sovereign country.“

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

seaduse mittetundmine ei vabasta kodanikku seaduse täitmisest

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@Microinteracti1 The US persuaded Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for signing a memorandum, and now they’re bragging that Ukraine no longer holds any cards. They seem proud that their signature no longer means anything.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@stensoosaar @EestiNokiaAS tõsi, turud hinnastavad alati ka poliitilist kommunikatsioni, ja siin polegi vaidlust, kuid Trumpi räusked ja aluseta avaldused on lühiajalist volatiilsust turgudele kõvasti lisanud

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@anders_aslund Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are linked to potential Ukrainian drone manufacturer acquisitions through their backing of the U.S. drone company Powerus.

[GoldMomma @GoldMomma]

@DakdaR22 @McFaul, this would have been also my response to Trump at the White House when he humiliated Zelensky by claiming that ‘you don’t have the cards.’ Zelensky had U.S. guarantees that ultimately weren’t worth the ink they were written with.